O, do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks! Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God.

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.

To find his place and fill it is success for a man.

Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.

No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.

Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops.

Get up; repent. Come to God. Get the pattern of your life from Him, and then go about your work and be yourself.